The City Central Police arrested on Wednesday a 35-year-old Australian woman who was the manager of a bank and allegedly defrauded her employer of $4.1 million in eight months.

The woman allegedly accessed depositor accounts and transferred their money into her personal bank account from December 2009 to August 2010. She subsequently moved the funds into a foreign currency account.

They arrested her after she came to the police station accompanied by her lawyer. The police charged the woman with two counts of obtaining money by deception and three counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage through deception.

She had been fired from her job and is schedule to appear at the Downing Centre Local Court on Jan. 17, 2012.